We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is focused on building world-class general-purpose intelligence services. Its primary mission involves developing highly autonomous systems through novel model architectures, learning, and inference strategies. The team works on creating a family of new Generative AI models and applications that are efficient and capable.
As a Security Engineer within the AGI Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that AGI large language models and applications are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust. You will tackle a diverse array of security challenges, ranging from novel threats in Generative AI to selecting and implementing scalable and secure features such as key management solutions and encrypted storage. You will collaborate with applied scientists, software engineers, security engineers, as well as internal partners and external researchers to develop innovative technologies to solve some of our hardest security problems, and build paved path solutions that builder teams can adopt while building Generative AI models and applications.
Key job responsibilities
1. Perform threat modeling and ensure adequate security controls are in place for AGI models, applications, and infrastructure
2. Influence builders to be better security owners, actively engaging with them to innovate faster and develop scalable mechanisms for upholding the high security bar.
3. Create and maintain security documentation, including designs patterns, implementation guides, and secure software development kits (SDKs)
4. Simulate Generative AI adversarial attacks against AGI infrastructure.
5. Contribute to security automation tooling for building new Generative AI detection and tooling capabilities
6. Identify actionable and scalable mitigations for identified vulnerabilities, and collaborate with AGI product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.
7. Mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.- 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit
https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
